George Clooney: 'The best projects are going to streaming sites'

FILE - In this June 7, 2018, file photo, George Clooney arrives at the 46th AFI Life Achievement Award Honoring himself at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Clooney tops the 2018 Forbes' list of highest-paid actors with $239 million in pretax earnings. Forbes credits up to $1 billion that a British conglomerate said it would pay for Casamigos Tequila, which Clooney co-founded in 2013 with two entrepreneurs.Willy Sanjuan / Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP

George Clooney has started taking his projects to streaming sites after realizing films like Michael Clayton and Good Night, And Good Luck wouldn’t get green-lighted at the major studios.

The actor and director will launch his TV adaptation of Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 on Hulu later this week and admits the service and Netflix and Amazon will be high on his list of go-to streaming juggernauts as he pitches future projects, noting the studios behind some of his biggest dramatic films are no longer interested in making those types of movies anymore.

“The studios are less and less telling the kinds of stories that I like to tell,” Clooney tells The Hollywood Reporter. “Mid-range or even small budget.

“Warner Brothers isn’t going to make Good Night, and Good Luck now; they’re not going to make Michael Clayton, quite honestly, now. So (projects like those) are going to end up at Hulu or Netflix or Amazon or Apple or one of those places.”

Ironically, Clooney was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for his title role in Michael Clayton and he also landed a nod for directing Good Night, and Good Luck.